can anybody tell me the range for FT3 please?

[debjs]

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK]

As always, it depends on the laboratory. The range your lab uses might be significantly different to the one my lab uses. Here is ONE example:

pathology.bsuh.nhs.uk/patho...

Find out the range for YOUR lab - even if you have to ring them up.

Search Google using:

ft3 lab nhs

And you will get dozens of lab handbooks - and most of them will have their own range. Might cover your lab - but would demonstrate that they vary.

Rod

[debjs in reply to helvella]

thanks that's helpful. Could only find american ranges when googled but will never thought to add nhs to search terms

[Triciatextiles in reply to helvella]

Rod - how can I find out which NHS lab my gp uses? - they wont tell me and my daughter has had her TSH results (aged 14) and the gp told me her age doesnt matter but I know there should be an age range for children and young people

thanks

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to Triciatextiles]

That is plain farcical!

If you wanted to be annoying and bolshie, you could slam in a Freedom of Information Act request! I don't think they would have any grounds to refuse. But you would make yourself rather unpopular, I fear.

More practically, ring up the local PALS service (at a nearby hospital) and ask them. Not sure if that might be Ipswich? Or Bury? Whichever one you ring should be quite able to pass you on to another PALS service if that is needed, so take a guess.

Actually, do you have an option to have your blood drawn at a hospital pathology department? If so, that is very likely the lab they would use. And some blood draws cannot be done at a GP surgery (e.g. parathyroid hormone) as the delay n processing messes up the sample. So they must send some people.

Indeed, do you get given a blood test form? That might say something on it.

This link verifies that there are indeed paediatric ranges:

pathology.bsuh.nhs.uk/Patho...

tinyurl.com/86gtfdr

Though by 14 they seem close to adult ranges the issue is very much a matter of the GP's ignorance.

Rod

[Triciatextiles in reply to helvella]

many thanks I will do as you have suggested

[Triciatextiles in reply to helvella]

Sorry forgot to add that I am already VERY unpopular - Because I insisted on an endo referral for my husband to trial T3 (which has transformed his life and he is feeling better for the first time in years – Hypo for 12 years and has been very ill with ME).

He has written on my daughters medical records that I am the cause of my husbands ME - his coping mechanism with me - would you believe this? also he wrote that my daughter doesn’t have autism and that its me that is also the cause of her difficulties - I have just had her diagnosis confirming that indeed she is on the autistic spectrum!

It beggars belief!

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to Triciatextiles]

There are quite a lot of unpopular patients here! And I do mean unpopular with the medics - not a personal opinion.

Do post back with how you get on.

[Cee123]

FREE T3 - pmol/L 3.1 - 6.8

That was from a private company i used this week, but as Rod has mentioned, they vary. x

[debjs in reply to Cee123]

Thank you